Due to the security risks associated with collecting and storing user data, website business owners should carefully consider how they use web forms. The University of Maine System Web Technologies Group has published guidance that explains the options available to content editors using WordPress, the content management system used for most public University of Maine System […]
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Article list content block The article list content block now offers more UMaine News categorization options: University News academic areas This categorization option allows you to only display news articles for a particular college, as well as Honors College and Graduate School. University News regions This categorization option allows for display of news articles of […]
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Do you have students who will be creating a website as part of a team project or capstone? If the resulting website will become a resource for public use, it is important that this content is maintained within our campus WordPress environment and not a Google Site or externally-hosted domain. Before you get started, consider using […]
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Slider content block The slider content block now has a pair of options. Display a random slide, and restrict to only a single slide. Between the two, there are several uses for this feature: Randomize on, single-slide off If you want multiple features in the slider, randomizing where the slider starts will help change up […]
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Web accessibility has always been a requirement for UMaine websites, and has been a regular feature in our monthly newsletter — and ensuring your content is accessible is part of an inclusive communication strategy. This month, we focus on tools that create graphics for social media, such as Canva. Creating graphics with text embedded Social […]
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In our October newsletter we offered instructions to add Kaltura videos to your webpages. What about YouTube, Vimeo, and other websites where videos are published? The good news is that adding videos from other services is even simpler. Using oembed When embedding a video from YouTube or Vimeo, the website ‘oembed’ feature can be used if […]
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Do you receive unhelpful spam from your web forms? While there have been tools available that attempt to thwart the automated form submission robots that are responsible for this, such options have introduced barriers to visitors that rely on assistive technology. For this reason we had not allowed for the use of reCAPTCHA (a popular […]
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Web accessibility has always been a requirement for UMaine websites, and has been a regular feature in our monthly newsletter— and ensuring your content is accessible is part of an inclusive communication strategy. This month, we focus on how different website features should be used for their intended purpose Heading tags A well structured page […]
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The UMaine website design allows for site navigation as a horizontal bar below your website header title and image. This is sufficient for many sites, but larger websites do need “sub-section” navigation for better usability. To date, this has been accomplished using the sidebar template on pages where a secondary menu can appear. Our Digital Communications […]
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Web accessibility has always been a requirement for UMaine websites, and has been a regular feature in our monthly newsletter— and ensuring your content is accessible is part of an inclusive communication strategy. This month, we focus on how screen readers work with social media communication tactics such as “hash tags.” What is a hashtag? […]
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